The sky on March 17, 1946 — as it really was
That day the Sun stood in Pisces — sign and constellation agree here.
Bodies on the ecliptic (noon UTC)
- ☉︎ Sun — 356.3° · sign Pisces · constellation Pisces
- ☽︎ Moon — 172.8° · sign Virgo · constellation Virgo
- ☿︎ Mercury — 10.2° · sign Aries · constellation Pisces
- ♀︎ Venus — 7.0° · sign Aries · constellation Cetus
- ♂︎ Mars — 107.2° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ♃︎ Jupiter — 205.6° · sign Libra · constellation Virgo
- ♄︎ Saturn — 108.0° · sign Cancer · constellation Gemini
- ☽︎ Moon 100% illuminated
astronomy-engine ephemerides (VSOP87/ELP), IAU 1930 constellation boundaries. Positions accurate to a fraction of a degree.
The day’s dossier, from real data
Checkable facts with a tag and a source; the classical reading is in the chart.
- The Moon that day [EXACT]
full moon, 100% lit; the Moon was 393,011 km away.
astronomy-engine - How far Earth has travelled since [EXACT]
80.6 orbits of the Sun — 75,704 million km, that is 98,471 return trips to the Moon; 29,423 rotations of Earth; with the Sun — 584.7 billion km around the Galactic centre, 22.6 light-days.
29.78 km/s along the orbit; 230 km/s around the Galactic centre - Mars then and now [EXACT]
On that day Mars was 153 million km away; today it is 244 million km (farther by 1.6×).
astronomy-engine; checked against JPL Horizons for 2026-09-14 - When the sky repeats [EXACT]
Mars returns to that day’s point of its orbit on January 31, 2027; Jupiter — in 2029; a full moon exactly on this date — March 17, 2060
sidereal periods: Mars 686.98 d, Jupiter 11.862 yr - How far the sky has drifted since [EXACT]
The vernal point has shifted 4,032″ since that day; the real constellations now sit 23.1° away from the astrologers’ “signs”.
precession 50.29″/yr
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